Plants in thin to dense mats, pale green to yellowish, glossy or rarely dull. Stems to 4 cm, 1-4 mm wide across leafy stem, erect or sometimes prostrate, julaceous or rarely somewhat complanate-foliate. Leaves erect or sometimes spreading, imbricate or rarely distant, ovate or oblong-ovate, symmetric, strongly concave, rarely nearly flat, 1-3 × 0.4-1.4 mm; margins plane or often narrowly recurved nearly to apex, entire or rarely serrulate at apex; apex abruptly acute or slender-acuminate, not abruptly contracted, ; costa with one branch often reaching mid leaf, sometimes appearing single with one branch poorly developed, or rarely ecostate; alar cells rectangular, 28-70 × 12-22 µm, in 1-5 vertical rows, terminating in 1 cell at base, region triangular; medial laminal cells 60-161 × 7-17 µm. Specialized asexual reproduction sometimes present as propagula, 36-110 × 9-17 µm, of 2-7 cells borne in leaf axils. Sexual condition dioicous, rarely fruiting. Seta light brown to red, 1-2.6 cm, straight or somewhat curved. Capsule erect to inclined, light brown to dark red when mature, straight or arcuate, 1-2.5 × 0.3-0.8 mm, smooth or often striate or wrinkled, strongly wrinkled at neck; operculum rostrate, 0.8-1 mm; endostome cilia 1-3. Spores 9-14µm.
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